>whip out my 18 years old GBA SP>still works>whip out my 5 years old phone>coughs blood and diesWhy is technology so shit nowadays?
>>107858458I have a drawer full of old phones, 5 year old ones too. All still work.
>>107858458I think a lot of companies copied Apple, so they make things deliberately break after some time so you have to buy a new one. It is unethical and absolutely terrible for the environment it is basically pure evil but people still buy Apple and CEO's are psychos so what can be done?
>>107858458Software updates are designed to make your phone shit over time
>>107858458Are you trying to use your 5 year old phone with current software or with 5 year old software?
>>107858458>Why is technology so shit nowadays?Planned obsolescence.
>>107858458>Pull out my GBC>Still works>Pull out my 3DS>Completely deadYou vill own nothing and you vill be happy
>>107858676>>Pull out my 3DS>>Completely deadReplace the battery like you probably did with your GBC.
>>107858676The 3DS just needs a new battery. I have a DSLight that still has some capacity in the original battery but the battery got only a few cycles since I didn't use it much back in the day.
>>107858689GBC takes 2 AAs, anon.
>>107858689nta but have a dsi on its original battery that still works and a 3ds that swelled and died
>>107858695Exactly.
>>107858458Because first you have to figure out how to make it work.Then you can start figuring out where to cut corners and not overbuild it.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescenceYou make more money by selling someone a shitty product repeatedly than a quality built product once.
>>107858458It's the quality of the components.I've got a 10 year old phone doing fine.
>>107858695Exactly.Batteries do not last forever and need replacement every few years.
>>107858485>5 year old5 years ago was like yesterday.There is absolutely no justification for software to be much slower than software from 5 years ago.Even though I know it is.
>>107858790I know there's no justification for it, I'm just stating the fact.The GBA was basically a set piece of hardware, where as new phones with new hardware are release every year.Software gets worse because it can. Every game that was made for the GBA was made for that one hardware configuration.
>>107858465Is this hacked or a flash cart?
>>107858844It's a real GBA SP. Flash cart.
>>107858854>real GBA SPWell I knew that part.>flash cartMakes sense. I wonder how much those cost now. Thankfully I still have my DS flash cart.
>>107858858I use a EZ Flash Omega DE. Works great and moddable firmware. Currently looks like 100€, got mine for 60 something years ago. Prices went up after Everdrives got harder to get.
>whip out my 18" penis>still hard>whip out my 5 year porn collection>Penis coughs cumWhy is pornography so free and plentiful nowadays?
>>107858750>>107858751Poetry.
>>107858879That unit looks pristine.Too bad it can barely do anything. Same with my 3DS. The screen is really cool though.
>>107858458Plenty of old shit breaks down over time. Go do the same test with a Game Gear. Almost all of them are dead at this point due to failed capacitors. An unserviced original Xbox has a good chance of being totally dead and potentially damaged upon repair by now due to leaking caps (primarily the clock supercap, but the others are prone to failure as well). Dual Shock 2s are another thing dying en masse because the conductive film inside them is breaking down and needs to be replaced. Generally that manifests as phantom inputs and/or buttons not working at all.You can cherrypick anything to suit your narrative. The reality is that most electronics require maintenance (preventative in many cases) to carry on working beyond their original expected lifespan, which generally isn't that long for consumer goods. If you want to move beyond gayming we can talk about belts in the vast majority of cassette players and disc drives turning to goo, for example.
>>107858458>>107858676>>107858880Poetry.
>>107858844Man those old GBA/NDS homebrew shells were so cool. They did so much with 32k/4mb of RAM and 33mhz ARM4 CPUs. Now your octocore phone with 8GB of RAM can't handle having one useful app running and the shell can't fucking do anything.
>>107859579GBA had 288KB of memory, 32KB internally in the CPU and 256KB RAM. Pus 98KB of VRAM.Anyways you don't need much to run things from ROM in the first place.
